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'Jammes'

[SFC] [JAPAN] [MAGAZINE] [1994]

"A battle of wits between "good" and "evil" with intelligence at stake! Against the persistent challenge of the "evil secret society" plotting world domination, the intense magical dice battle begins." ~Ad Caption [BMT🤖]

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Source: The Super Famicom, 9/16/1994 (Vol. 5, #16) || Internet Archive; Mittermeyer

[anakinsimp]

I wasn't joking when I talked about Erik/Jammes

Land of the lustrous AU ofc

[detournementsmineurs]

"Bridesmaid Dress" by A. F. Jammes Department Store (USA) copying House of Worth, 1896.

[your-angle-of-music]

So the MazM Phantom of the Opera mobile game sure takes some liberties

Here be spoilers. In summary: they are deeply iconic.

The Good

The de Chagny brothers have pink hair.

Little Jammes the ballerina is actually a canonical catgirl who unionizes the dancers and leads the first ever opera house strike.

She eventually grows up to be a women’s rights activist and early suffragette.

The Persian is the one who gave Erik his name. In general, their relationship is approached in a heartwarming, heartwrenching, interesting way.

The game (and Raoul) criticize Philippe more actively, calling out his obsession with maintaining a family image compatible with class and gender norms, his infantilizing treatment of Raoul which is bad as well as tender, and his relationship with Sorelli compared with Raoul’s relationship with Christine.

The Persian tells off Raoul for judging the Persian government, pointing out his role as a colonizer.

Interestingly enough, Christine’s relationship with her father wasn’t perfect either — he used to get drunk and depressed and borderline abusive, and it helps to explain why she might be particularly vulnerable to Erik’s manipulation.

There’s a mini-arc where Christine rescues Meg Giry from being trapped in Box 5 by the managers and drugged by Erik.

Meg leads a troop of opera workers to look for Christine after the final kidnapping by Erik, separately from Raoul and the Persian. They’re the ones who end up finding Raoul after he almost drowns and taking him back to the opera house.

There’s basically high-key Megstine vibes overall.

Holy SHIT the ending...it’s no longer about Christine (who has been trying to save everyone but herself all along) showing yet more compassion to the Phantom or thinking she can change him. Instead, Christine tells him that he can’t control her anymore and that he’s nothing without bullying other people and that she doesn’t think he’s a monster for his face, but for his actions. He begs her to love him, if he changes, and she says that even if he does change, she still won’t owe him her love. She leaves with Melek without kissing him or taking his ring (although she still does promise to bury him after he dies).

When Erik says his final goodbye to the Persian, he calls him his name (Hatim in this game) instead of Daroga for the first and last time and they forgive each other but only when the other is out of earshot and I never thought a mobile game could make me cry but here I am.

There are two possible endings for Christine: either she goes off with Raoul to the beach where they spent their childhood summer together and get to know each other again and Raoul has learned not to pressure her to marry him and they take their time to reconnect, or she goes off alone and travels the world and sings for herself and never marries and ends up visiting her mother’s grave in Sweden.

The Bad

Instead of Christine losing Erik’s ring when she kisses Raoul like in the book, Raoul makes her give it to him and he chucks it off the roof of the opera house even though she told him quite clearly that taking it off would put her in danger.

Erik as the Angel of Music is so obviously creepy, controlling, and just kinda...mean from the beginning that I don’t really buy Christine’s initial loyalty towards him, or that she would believe he was the Angel.

Like, he really does genuinely seem to hate Christine and isn’t weirdly nice to her during the two weeks after the first kidnapping like he is in the book. He doesn’t like it when she expresses any emotions, talks about herself, or reads books.

As awesome as MazM Meg is, she is aged up and much more serious and caring, so we do lose Leroux’s sassy feral preteen Meg whom I love so dearly.

Everyone is so, SO mean to the Persian, and both Raoul and Erik and even you in the future (it’s a bit hard to explain) assign him way too much of the blame for how Erik turned out because when he was spending time with him in Persia he focused on making his life slightly less miserable instead of taking it upon himself to teach him right and wrong??

And then yeah the Persian is directly responsible for the Shah trying to have him murdered because he made up a rumor about him intending to get him exiled so he could leave the toxic environment of the Persian court but then the Shah decided to have the Persian execute him instead. But he still did end up saving his life at immense personal risk. And even fragile Erik recognized that. Plus he protected Raoul and Christine just because he thought it was the right thing to do. Why does the narrative keep trying to uncritically frame the Persian as selfish when he’s very much not??

The Baffling

The managers are legitimately evil now and try to frame Christine for the murder of Joseph Buquet for...reasons.

So Christine wasn’t Erik’s first “love.” Oh no. You see, he has a blind Turkish woman named Melek locked up in his basement after she refused to marry him. She used to be his interpreter and servant, and she was nice enough to him, and he thought she might love him because she was blind, but because she knew about the torture devices he built for the sultan, she spurned his advances. So he has imprisoned her for ten years now. Throughout the game, Christine tries to help her escape.

I don’t think the game designers realized that Jammes and Sorelli are last names (Jammes’ first name is actually Cécile in the book), and so they renamed them Jammes Petit and Sorelli Dupont.

Yeah Erik really didn’t convincingly change and while what Christine said to him was really important to her arc, I’m not sure if it made him act too differently. For example, he never chose to save Raoul for her sake — he never found out that he survived the torture chamber flooding and told Christine that he died.

The game even makes a point of having Erik call Christine “the cruel devil” several times after she makes him set her free (quite the opposite of book Erik calling her an “angel” later). On one hand it’s really good for Christine but on the other hand his reasons for giving up the Phantom and the money seem less clear.

This is the character design for the detective/narrator:

[littleeliza-lotte]

Jammes and a cat. That’s it that’s the post

[saintacephale]

Christine Daaé

‪✧‬ christine is a student in a university pretty well known in paris. ms. valerius paid for her tuition, yet christine is pretty average and struggles on her studies since her father died. she sings in between school periods in her room, where no one can hear her. she normally hangs around the campus or the library to read, she has some friends but prefers to have a small friend group. rarely goes out and is known to be the “timid but kind swedish girl”

‪✧‬ her fashion choice is feminine and modest - she doesn’t follow trends a lot, she wears a lot of flowery patterns and dresses, where the colours white and blue are predominant. she wears glasses for she suffers from myopia and can’t see from afar.

‪✧‬ she isn’t too keen to social media; she has instagram but only uses it to see what her friends are up to and has few followers. Her preferred apps are tumblr (where she follows aesthetic blogs) and soundcloud. she posts covers in soundcloud by the username “littlelotte”

‪Raoul De Chagny

‪✧‬ raoul is very well-known in university specially for his status as the “rich boy”. hiss older brother, Philippe, half-forced him to study law. everyone tries to get to know him and invite him to parties but he prefers staying at home. he is handsome and many girl have a crush on him but he still lingers in his childhood friend whom she hasn’t seen for 10 years. until one day he suddenly sees a girl on campus who looks a lot like his old friend.

‪✧‬ his clothing is very dark academia inspired and he wears a lot of long brown coats and white shirts.

‪✧‬ he does have social media, he uses twitter (specially to see the news when he wakes up) and instagram, where he keeps his name simply as “raoul c” so people don’t follow him and lurk on him only because of his financial and social status. he posts mainly pictures of pretty views he comes across with. he dislikes selfies and never posts his face.

Erik

‪✧‬ a part-time worker on the library of the university who only exclusively wears black. no one ever talks to him and he’s normally hidden between books of musical theology. once he peeked the sweet christine reading classic novels and got intrigued. everyday he finds her sitting alone in a table in the back of the library between a bunch of books about fairytales and gothic literature and daydreams about who the quiet girl might be.

‪✧‬ one day he catches her scrolling through soundcloud with earphones on and catches a glimpse of her soundcloud username. he became her first follower on soundcloud.

‪✧‬ after that, he messaged her and they started talking via texting, where erik hid behind the “anonphantom” username. they both shared their love for music and erik complimented every cover she made on soundcloud, not revealing he is the myserious guy that works on the library of the university she attends.

[tevy-dub]

“HOOOOOOOO I THINK I’M GONNA THROW UP---- Nono, false alarm....”

So @elisabeth-jammes and I have been working on our @gfanimate shot... Zab made the global designs and the background, I did the animating. It was my first time animating in like 2 years and homy I’m so rusted. This took me forever and still I feel it’s rushed and bleh, my gracious Zab had to help me colorize to get this done in time... Still, it was really fun to go back to animating a bit ; I missed it. ( ° w°) Cheers ~

[chris--daae]

So, the forth part of the reincarnation au! (I am sorry if anything doesn’t make sense here.) Meet the whole gang!

In the earlier 20s, there was a mayor who was really in love with Europe. Everything he build in town, he built inspired in an European style. He was the one who planned and built the Palace of the Arts, or “The European Theatre”. Inspired by the big theatres of the old continent, but much smaller. Still, he wanted it to be as beautiful, and spent all money he could with it. He wasn’t really a good mayor. He was said to have stolen a lot while in power, and his fancy buildings were never what the town needed. The Palace is his big legacy, and though it seems a impressive one, it really isn’t. It has always been overall too expensive, the bills too high. Bringing great plays is too expensive. Tickets ended up too expensive. Many people still went to the performances at first, to seem intelectual mostly. But not many were really interested in the classical plays that the mayor wanted there. After a new months it started to be hard to keep a public. The administration really tried. Lowering tickets prices, diversificating the style of plays. Still, it costed too much to keep, and the gain was too small. If the former mayor saw the state his beloved Palace is nowadays, he would cry. And it would probably be closed forever, if it wasn’t for the dream of a young artist. Every since she was little, Christine would pass in front of the Palace of the Arts everyday when going to school. It was already in bad conditions then, but it still lit a flame in the girl’s heart. She daydreamed about what it looked like when it opened, about what it would look like in its full glory. She dreamed of performing there one day. Christine was talented. She was in every school play, and when she was 13 her parents found a teacher who gave singing classes for an affordable price. She had a beautiful voice and loved singing more than anything. She was also what people called “stubborn”. She dreamed about performing in that place, and no one would stop her. At the age of 21, she one day decided to go to the City Hall to ask about the Palace, and her parents almost had to pick her up from the jail. She fortunately didn’t get to be arrested, but it was close. And she got what she wanted. Christine had a permission to use the Palace if she could pay the bills. She knew it would be hard but it didn’t make her less happy. That’s how The Last Hope was born. Christine called everyone she knew who had a bit of inclination to the arts to help, from her high school class and from her singing class. A small group of actors and musicians, that didn’t have the right size or formation to be called anything. Together they started raising the money, with performances and internet campaigns. The Last Hope was now four years old, and it was harder than Christine could imagine. They still could use the Palace, even if sometimes they had to pay from their own pockets to complete the money. Most of what they got was from donations, and they all had other jobs since they didn’t get a penny from this work. They would always say the next month things would go better, that they would finally be able to do some of the restorations that the Palace needed. And it always had to wait the next month. They would often have auditions, since many people left. Christine was very frustrated with it, but the people who did stay revealed to be some of the most loyal and trustful people she ever knew. She considered them more than friends, they were almost a second family to her. Christine’s family supported her, sometimes even giving money when she needed, but they hoped she would give up soon. For them, she had talent to be in a better place and was wasting that in a hopeless dream.

“Remind me why I am doing this, Meg.” “Because you love me?” Raoul sighed. Meg was right. He loved her as if she was his own sister, and he would do anything for her, including this. Meg was only one year younger than him, and a bit taller, with her 1,75 m. She has light skin and long black hair. Her legs are thin and long, and she is a bit self conscious about her height. Raoul sees no reason for her to be. Raoul was a blond 22 years old who looked younger. It bothered him to be mistaken by a teenager, and it happened quite often. He was the youngest son of a very rich family of German origin. Meg was the daughter of a woman who worked for his family. Because of their close age, they soon became friends. Raoul actually sometimes felt closer to her than to his own sisters. Because of him, his parents paid a few things for Meg, including her singing lessons. Raoul never thought he would regret it, but now he did a bit. Meg wanted to join some sort of band called “The Last Hope”, and it was her audition day. Raoul had no doubt she would pass it, but Meg was very nervous. So, she asked her childhood friend, her heart brother, to go with her. The problem was that Raoul hated music. He didn’t want to met these people who lived and breathed music. He was polite and didn’t like offending people, so he would have no choice but to lie. That was Meg’s world, not his. But he loved her, and would do anything for her, including this. And her smile made it worth it.

The two arrived the European Theatre. Raoul could not understand why anyone would still want to go to that place. Sure, it may have been beautiful once, but now it was in a terrible state. Most of the original painting have faded, and some young delinquents painted some profanities on the front. There were cracks everywhere, as if it could fall apart any second. Raoul heard it had been abandoned for many years (and if he was to be honest it still looked like it was), and kids used to say it was haunted. Not really knowing what he got himself into, Raoul followed Meg inside. At least she was happy, almost shinning, but also very nervous about her audition. When they arrived the big hall, a short woman walked to them. She was black, her short hair not touching her shoulders. She wore a plain blue dress, and there was such grace in the way she walked and moved. Raoul had never seen this woman before, but Meg waved to her. “You must be Christine, right?” “Yes. Are you Margaret?” “Yes. And please, call me Meg.” Raoul did hear their introduction, but didn’t pay attention to the words. His mind was completely focused on the woman in front of him, her every small gesture almost hypnotizing him. What did she say her name was? “And you are?” It took him some seconds to realize she talked to him. “Ah, I am Raoul.” “Are you here for an audition too?” “No, no. Just accompanying my dear Meg.” Christine nodded. “We are always accepting so… if you happen to have some secret talent, feel free to contact us.” Raoul could only nod. His mouth was slightly open. Christine couldn’t help but giggle at his behaviour. When she turned around, Meg let out a silent laugh. “Stop flirting, Raoul!”, she whispered. “I am not flirting!”, he whispered back. “Also, we always accept donations.”, said Christine. There was a big smile on her face, the whole situation amusing her. “Please follow me, I am gonna introduce you to some of the guys who are around today.” They entered the auditorium, Meg and Raoul following Christine. Raoul was really surprised at himself. He has seen beautiful women before, and he has had crushes before, but no one made him act as such as fool as he was now in front of Christine. She was beautiful, but not in an abnormal way, and so far he only exchanged a few words with her. There was no reason for her to affect him so deeply so soon. What was this spark? A few people were sitting in the lower level of the audience. “Guys!”, called Christine. All looked at her direction, except for one guy that wore big headphones. A girl sitting besides him poked his shoulder, making him turn too. “This is Meg. She came for an audition. And this is her… friend? Brother? Boyfriend?” “Only friend.”, explained Meg. She winked to Raoul. Christine started introducing the members of “The Last Hope” that were there. The guy with headphones, a tall and thin brunette, was Kenneth, the male lead singer and violin player. The girl besides him, with long black hair tied behind her head, and wearing a shinning pink jacket, was Carlotta, the female lead singer. Behind her, two girls whispered to each other. One of them was really short, had green eyes, some freckles covering her cheeks, and short light brown hair. He name was Cécile. The other had a very serious expression, dark skin, curly hair and wore a cropped top and yoga pants, that showed her well-defined body. Christine introduced her as Sorelli. “Is that your first name or last name?”, Meg asked, curious. “Yes.”, she replied, serious. Both Cécile and Sorelli were backup singers. Cécile also played the cello, and Sorelli was a “passionate dancer”, though they didn’t perform any dance in The Lat Hope. Beside Sorelli, sat a short man. He had dark hair and blue eyes, and a heavy body. His name was Carlos, a backup singer. Finally, on his side sat a tall dark skinned man, that showed Meg a kind smile. He was Antonio, another backup singer. After introducing everyone, Christine offered Raoul a seat, and told Meg to go on stage. Raoul noticed that the fabric of the seats was really old and worn. He avoided looking at Christine, afraid he would stare. He really couldn’t understand why she attracted him so much, it was something he didn’t remember ever feeling before. Raoul wished he was paying more attention to Meg singing, but that was something he had seen many times before. As much as he tried to avoid, his full attention was on Christine.